This week was TechEd North America, a conference from Microsoft for technical professionals covering the span of pretty much everything Microsoft produces to support IT professionals and software developers. I was pleased to have been invited to speak on developing Metro style apps in XAML for .NET developers. Like most developer presenters, I planned on showing a lot of demos, using different tools, editors, and varying code samples, URLs, etc. When you are a presenter at a conference you usually don't have the luxury of sitting in your office and doing things without distractions. You want to get across your message of your presentation and also be able to have some good demonstrations articulating your points. When you have a lot of demos, most of the time presenters will rely on some form of snippets - something for them to either type in quic ...
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